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Nearly three years ago I wrote a bullish article on Yahoo (YHOO) after ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer took over as CEO, with the stock at $16 per share (Does Marissa Mayer Make Yahoo Stock A Worthwhile Bet?). After the stock had doubled a year later I postulated that it was fairly valued, but for a while now I have moved back into the bullish camp.

Earlier this week, the Alliance for Main Street Fairness – a coalition of brick-and-mortar retailers – launched a commercial against Alibaba Group Holding ltd (NYSE:BABA), portraying the e-commerce giant as a potential killer of small merchants in the US.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) is only half the age of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), but has grown way beyond its American counterpart. In fact, in terms of valuation, the Chinese e-commerce giant is currently much bigger than Amazon and eBay Inc (EBAY) combined. But that in no way means that Amazon has done poorly.

The recently-announced deal between ChinaVision Media Group Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Limited will go through a subsidiary, which will control 60% of ChinaVision’s enlarged share capital after purchasing 12.5 billion shares at HK$0.50 apiece (a discount of nearly 21% to ChinaVision’s opening price on the Hong Kong stock exchange today).
Following the announcement, ChinaVision’s stock price increased by over 187% to close at HK$1.84 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange during trading today.

Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has finally decided to keep Alibaba Group Holdings stake with the company. The Internet company also said that after deliberations, it is now considering a reverse spin off of Alibaba, effectively separating its core business along with $8.5 billion stake in Yahoo Japan.

BEIJING: India is a potential market for cloud computing services, said Yu Sicheng, Alibaba Group vice-president, said on Tuesday. Yu made the remarks in an event on the sidelines of an event of the Alibaba Cloud Global, the subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant. He also announced the opening of cloud data centres in Europe and West Asia. "India is definitely a country with huge potential and we will definitely let the audience know whenever we have a concrete plan," Yu told IANS.

If you're investing for retirement that is still more than 20 years away and you do not have inclination to sell when stocks take a dive, is there any advantage to owning bonds at all? Or are bonds only for scaredy cats who will sell their stocks during a market plunge? -- Tom McCarthy, Wilmington, Delaware

ByCranky:
It's time to check in on the 2012 performance of the Scaredy Cat Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Portfolio SCVIG. Click these articles, here for the total returns and here for the dividend growth history of the SCVIG and how it was given its feline moniker.

While there are many questions about the sincerity, not to mention underlying viability of his company (which many skeptical investors have accused of being an accounting shell whose operations raise many questions), moments ago Alibaba's Jack Ma appeared at the Trump Tower for a meeting with Donald Trump, where according to CNBC, he will discuss plans to create 1 million new U.S.